The Illinois state legislature approved a bill on Sunday prohibiting law enforcement officers from using deception tactics while interrogating minors, who advocates have long argued are especially vulnerable to making false confessions
The Illinois state legislature approved a bill on Sunday prohibiting law enforcement officers from using deception tactics while interrogating minors -- who advocates have long argued are especially vulnerable to making false confessions.Under the bill, confessions made by juvenile suspects who were deceived by law enforcement officers during the interrogation process would be deemed"inadmissible as evidence.
The legislation is 'the first of its kind'Illinois is the first state to pass such a bill, according to the Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization that works to exonerate those it believes to have been wrongfully convicted. State legislatures in New York and Oregon have introduced similar bills.
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